Re: [GENERAL] V8.4 TOAST table problem

2013-07-15 Thread Bradley McCune
David, I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that I follow how this is pertinent to this particular thread. Are you proposing a way to replicate the scenario we experienced of our massively bloated TOAST table? If so, I'm not entirely sure that's doable given that the source of the issue was never clear.

Re: [GENERAL] V8.4 TOAST table problem

2013-07-15 Thread Bradley McCune
and fix it. If you were suffering from an operational failure of some sort, then it helps to figure that out too. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Bradley McCune bradley.mcc...@noaa.govwrote: Well, the issue was corrected by completely rebuilding the database a few days ago (all the way

Re: [GENERAL] V8.4 TOAST table problem

2013-07-12 Thread Bradley McCune
David, (As a preface, I have already gone forward with completely rebuilding the database which seems to have finally fixed the problem. Rebuilding the table itself had no effect, and I couldn't wait much longer to move forward.) Yes, this seems similar, however, the key difference being that

Re: [GENERAL] V8.4 TOAST table problem

2013-07-12 Thread Bradley McCune
. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: Did you have a long running trasnaction? Especially a prepared transaction, blocking the vacuum from reclaiming the space? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Bradley McCune bradley.mcc...@noaa.gov wrote: David

Re: [GENERAL] V8.4 TOAST table problem

2013-07-12 Thread Bradley McCune
, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: Idle in Transaction? Or plain Idle? Idle in Transaction stops vacuum from reclaiming space and is indicative of a broken application. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Bradley McCune bradley.mcc...@noaa.govwrote: The only

Re: [GENERAL] V8.4 TOAST table problem

2013-07-12 Thread Bradley McCune
for max_prepared_transactions. Perplexing. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: So what id select * from pg_prepared_xacts ; show? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Bradley McCune bradley.mcc...@noaa.govwrote: Scott, Purely idle. I compared these transactions with our